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Euthanasia - Immoral Or Human Right?
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... doomed to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he
knows that he will be 100% dependant on the ones that care for him, his
lived ones, forever. It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a
terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. Never being able to walk again,
never being able to talk to your children again, never being able to go
shopping, swimming, playing, driving etc. must be terrible for anyone. The
whole situation only gets worse, if the patient himself, can see that his
condition is worsening, and only time keeps his thoughts clear. A third
very important point, is pain. If p ...
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Number of Words: 2014 / Number of Pages: 8
... Stay of Execution
Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has
assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides
in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that
made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period
of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four
years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be
against the rig ...
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Cholesterol
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... is a stroke. A high level of LDL reflects an increased risk of heart disease. That is why LDL is often called "bad" .
comes from two sources. It’s produced in your body, mostly in the liver (about 1,000 milligrams a day). And it’s found in foods that come from animals, such as meats, poultry, fish, seafood and dairy products. Foods from plants (fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds) do not contain
For some people, exercise affects blood cholesterol level by increasing HDL level ("good" cholesterol). A higher HDL level is linked with decreased risk of heart disease. Exercise can also help ...
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The Cost Of Sleep Deprivation
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... not so widely known. Three common symptoms seen in studies of prolonged sleep deprivation are a deep negative energy balance, the suppression of the immune system, and an odd change in patterns of sleep.
Perhaps the most obvious effect sleeplessness has on a person is the negative energy balance. This occurs because the thyroid hormone expends more energy than is actually being metabolized. Your body is using more energy, than would normally be restored by sleeping. People who get less than the suggested number of hours of sleep tend to be less alert and attentive, and more inclined to irritabili ...
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Teen Pregnancy
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... semen before, during and after a man ejaculates.It prevents pregnancy by preventing the sperm from entering the vagina. There is however a risk that you might get pregnant even with the use of condoms. It is not one hundred percent effective. However, latex condoms also protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. The latex condom offers better protection againsts STDs than any other birth control method. It blocks exchange of bodily fluids that may be infected.
The Pill is one of the most effective reversible methods of birth control. "The Pill" is the common name for ora ...
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Surrogate Mothers
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... say what one would do in any situation, but
one can never know exactly what they would do until that situation comes.
How many of you have ever held a small child in your arms and looked into its
small eyes and felt the love that you had for it. Perhaps it was a younger
sibling, perhaps even a child of your own. You know how much that you love that
little one. And of course, you all know how much the child's mother loves it.
What must it be like, I ask you, to be a mother or a father and know that you
will never have a son or a daughter to hold and call your own? Knowing that you
will never ...
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Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 1273 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the terminally
ill individual.
The main controversy over this issue, is the question of morality. Is
it morally right for a doctor to assist in suicide? Many individuals feel that
it is not. It is thought if assisted suicide is legalized throughout the states,
it will encourage families with terminally ill relatives to push them
prematurely to their demise(Carter 2). This is an outlandish assumption. A
family that truly loves one another would not urge a family member to rush any
decision as momentous as ending one's life. If there is caring among the family,
the suicide would not take pla ...
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Cigarettes And Their Destruction Of The Brain
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... the brain
may function normally despite the irregular amount of acetylcholine-like
chemical acting upon it. The brain is reshaped: the smoker feels normal with
nicotine in his system, and abnormal without it. A series of tests were
conducted on nonsmokers, "active" smokers, and "deprived" smokers. The "active"
smokers were given a cigarette before each test, while the "deprived" smokers
were not allowed cigarettes before tests.
The tests started simply, and then moved towards more complex problems.
In the first test, subjects sat in front of a computer screen and pressed the
space bar whe ...
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Abortion Is Murder
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... and by that definition, it wouldn't matter if your shot and killed on the street because "your not fully developed". We are a stage in development -- teenager -- just like a child is, just like a toddler is, just like an old man is, and just like a aborted child is. There is no magical transformation that occurs when a child is born. He has the same basic needs to survive before he is born, and the same needs after he is born.
The negative is going to attempt to make you believe that the differnce in quality of a unborn child is so great that these children do not resemble what we call alive. They ...
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Medical Conditions Of Concentration Camps
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... For
prisoners it was a chance to live, if they were lucky. Some prisoners were
taken by doctors for experiments and depending on the nature of the experiment
they might live for a long time or be killed imediatly.
Doctors picked which people should be killed through a selection process. A
person could be killed for having as little as a tiny scar, or because ofa
defect, or anything at all. The doctors of Block 10 are most remembered. The
two that stand out most are Josef Mengele and Ernst B. Josef Mengele as one of
the cruelest doctors who killed many, many people. He was said to be see ...
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